A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.

A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron. A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.

See Trou-de-loup.

Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.

One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.

That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.

A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Ranc/ in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.

Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.

Trappings for a horse.

Same as Trappous.

Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.

A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg.

To follow with violence and trampling.

In a trashy manner.

The quality or state of being trashy.

Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.

A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water.

A stammering or stuttering.

Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds. Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary. Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus. A traumatic medicine.

A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.

See Trance.

Same as Trant.

Same as Tranter.

To harass; to tire.

Causing travail; laborious.

A crossbeam; a lay of joists.

The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.

Harassed; fatigued with travel.

Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced.

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

Across; athwart.

Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.

To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing.

One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like.

Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion.

A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.

To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.

A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.

A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.

One who, or that which, trawls.

A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.

Same as Trawl, n., 2.

A rope passing through a block, used in managing or dragging a trawlnet.

A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.

An old game played with dice.

As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.

See Trais.

Traces.

A traitor; a cheat.

Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.

Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

A traitor.

A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1.

Like, or composed of, treacle.

A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.

See Tread, n., 5.

One who treads.

A cock.

The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.

A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.

A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.

A truce.

The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.

Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.

Treasonable.

To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.

Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears.

One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation.

The office of treasurer.

A woman who is a treasurer.

A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.

A parley; a conference.

Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent.

In a treatable manner.

One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.

A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.

One who writes a treatise.

The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

Treatment.

The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation.

To become threefold.

The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones.

Same as Triblet.

In a treble manner; with a threefold number or quantity; triply.

A cucking stool; a tumbrel.

A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.

The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.

An odometer for vehicles.

A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.

See Treadle.

A game at cards for three.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); -- so called from its resemblance to hair.

The quantity or number which fills a tree.

Destitute of trees.

pl. of Tree.

A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

Ceremonially unclean, according to the Jewish law; -- opposed to kosher.

Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.

Same as Tr/fl/.

Guile; trickery.

A juggler who produces illusions by the use of elaborate machinery.

Trickery; also, a trick.

An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, Larinus nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.

Latticework for supporting vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis.

The act of trekking; a drawing or a traveling; a journey; a migration.

One that treks.

A field range finger used in the British service.

A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, used for various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.

Having a trellis or trellises.

Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.